Being with my almost 2 yo nephew makes me love and appreciate the child-rearing capabilities of television. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is magic, people.

From now on I'm going to assume that parents of small children who don't own televisions either have children with very easy personalities or are pathologically masochistic. THERE IS NO OTHER EXPLANATION!

Originally Posted by legends

we have the same nephew, I think.

I was at the grocery store buying my favorite brand of frozen pizza, and me and this woman working at the register started talking about how we both love pizza and the best pizza places around here. And how we spend our paychecks on pizza.

Anna - move all the dishes to one side and leave them there for her to do when she gets back. You can then use the sink but don't have to wash her dishes. You'll have to touch them of course but that can't be helped.

you wonder why I don't talk to you. Because the one time I try, you talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk about whatever the hell you talk about. like wtf. I don't even get a chance to say a word. You're still talking. I just put the phone down.

Anna - move all the dishes to one side and leave them there for her to do when she gets back. You can then use the sink but don't have to wash her dishes. You'll have to touch them of course but that can't be helped.

Originally Posted by Starmie

You are like psychic bc I totally just did that!

The dishes in the sink are mine.

Oop do you think bugs will start gathering? There are still bits of food on her dishes...

Being with my almost 2 yo nephew makes me love and appreciate the child-rearing capabilities of television. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is magic, people.

From now on I'm going to assume that parents of small children who don't own televisions either have children with very easy personalities or are pathologically masochistic. THERE IS NO OTHER EXPLANATION!

Originally Posted by legends

Agreed.

Added bonus: VCR's are no longer a common. Those and young nephews do not mix. I spent most of the early 90's digging odds & end and grilled cheese sandwiches out of them.

When I hear terms like "hipster" I think, who told cliques they could leave high school??

Yes, we are! I've just started switching over to single spacing after my husband showed me several articles proving that single was correct. That was against everything I had learned. It blew my mind, honestly.

You know what else blew my mind? I was in the car listening to the classic rock radio station. A song by Nirvana came on. I scoffed, "What??! This is on the classic rock radio station? As if! Everyone knows classic rock is from the 1970s. That's what they played when I was in high school." Then I realized that I was in high school in the late 1990s. The 70s were 20 years old. Just like Nirvana is now.

Originally Posted by sarah42

I can identify to that sort of rude awakening.

Or you hear a song that sounds familiar, only to realize it's a song you've never heard before that merely sampling one of the songs from your formative years. Or it's a cover -- and the younger set doesn't know it isn't the original.

I was in a circuit training class recently with a friend who was born the day before me in 1969. One of the instructors was barking out orders on how to do the station with the step blocks. I leaned over to my friend and said, "Remember when you and I took step aerobics classes back in the day? These teachers weren't even BORN yet." She wigged out.

Anna - move all the dishes to one side and leave them there for her to do when she gets back. You can then use the sink but don't have to wash her dishes. You'll have to touch them of course but that can't be helped.

Oop do you think bugs will start gathering? There are still bits of food on her dishes...

Originally Posted by annabananalise

if they do just send them to my house please.

I'm so annoyed. At that job interview the guy said that they were doing two groups and that one was starting later, I'm scared if I don't go to training now I will mess up everything and have no job. But If I go to training now (one it conflicts with my current job) and two once I start working it's 12 hour shifts, I don't know. I'm so overwhelmed. How am I supposed to balance 12 hour shifts twice a week, and school and my other job?
Should I put in two weeks now? Do I put in two weeks? I hate to quit it, it is fun but I guess I have to be a grown up and put aside fun things. I don't know what to do. I just want to cry.

I guess I will email these hospital people and ask if they're starting later training dates and go from there.

I tried to tell my parents that if I start this now, I can't even do anything on the weekends because I will have to use my weekends to do my 12 hour shifts. So please don't expect to see me ever again.

They don't seem to comprehend that I have to work 2x a week. AND THAT'S THE ONLY DAYS I CAN WORK SO I CAN'T TAKE OFF EVER.

Hahaha that reminds me of Elf...
"I'm sorry I ruined your lives and crammed eleven cookies in the VCR..."

Originally Posted by SCG

Hahaha! Truth.

I give them more grief about it now than I ever did then. They were just too cute, and proud that they had figured out where the sandwich could/would go. Now I constantly remind them that they owe us two VCR's. There was no recovering after after a grilled cheese or peanut butter that became warm.

Terribly sorry. When your small child is found walking down a road, alone, you're getting a visit whether you want one or not.

Originally Posted by Fifi.G

Um, yeah.

Being with my almost 2 yo nephew makes me love and appreciate the child-rearing capabilities of television. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is magic, people.

From now on I'm going to assume that parents of small children who don't own televisions either have children with very easy personalities or are pathologically masochistic. THERE IS NO OTHER EXPLANATION!

Originally Posted by legends

LOL...My sister and I were talking yesterday about how she feels mommy guilt for letting her son watch t.v. while she gets stuff done. I, on the other hand was like this:

Sometimes, I need to get stuff done. Like cleaning out my son's room. Holy crap, he had a lot of stuff. I don't think I've ever emptied out his toy box. Now I have a bunch of stuff to donate to the thrift shop!

Y'all I hate college but I hate that people that aren't in college assume you have it easy.

My mom just tried to compare not being able to go the airport to pick up my cousin because she has to work. Okay But you also get weekends off at your job.
I won't even see him for the month he's in the US. I haven't seen him in....11 years. hah.

I have class from 9am -5 and 6, five days a week. WITH WORK. And then I work on the weekends. AND HOMEWORK AND STUDYING. And people be like, why don't you go out. YOU GO OUT. You have fun. You have no job, you don't care about your classes, do you.

The other weekend I was home 10 hours out of the friday saturday and sunday that I worked. 10 HOURS. Not to mention we're not allowed to sit down at my job.

It may seem like I sit around on here alot or am lazy but only because when I can actually sit down I refuse to move. I refuse.

Time management is a b*tch.

omg I just realized I have to go back to work and I just home at 9 this morning. Kill me